I've never played a character that would sing.

"Married with Children" was racy, it was sexist, it was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

I was very rebellious.

I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

The reason people are watching women in their mid-fifties is because a lot of those women feel great and have different, interesting stories to tell.

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

Great victory requires great risk.-Hera

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'

A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.

Sitting on a beach or walking through nature makes me come alive always.

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.

I personally feel that people feel very reassured by nature because it makes us feel small and that's a good thing for human beings and for society.